Stan Reiss is passionate about bringing cutting edge technology to market. Since joining Matrix over a decade ago, he has invested primarily in companies developing technically sophisticated components, systems, and software, and health IT. His investments include Acacia Communications, a 100 Gbps optical communications company; Fastback Networks, a new class of intelligent wireless transport devices; QPID, electronic health record analytics software; Qualtre, a start-up developing novel MEMS-based inertial sensors; and Xtalic, a nanostructured metal alloy and coating company.

Stan joined Matrix in the summer of 2000. He had previously spent time helping technology companies refine their strategies and operations in McKinsey & Company’s electronics practice as well as developing Ethernet chips at National Semiconductor. Stan was born in Gdansk, a shipbuilding city in the north of Poland, and grew up at a time of social unrest and martial law. He and his family immigrated to the U.S. in 1982. Stan began programming in junior high, and in high school he worked for a semiconductor test equipment start-up, where he coded software that enabled a probe to take optical measurements of wafers.

Stan received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University, two engineering masters’ degrees from MIT (focused on communications networking), and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (where he was a Baker Scholar).